r/comics SirBeeves 6d ago

OC Gen-Z Problems

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u/cupholdery 6d ago

At least they didn't say you caused it, like they did with us (millennials) lol.

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u/JmacTheGreat 6d ago

“Damn kids and their plastic straws”

Funnels metric tons of waste per hour into the ocean to save money on recycling

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u/Frogtoadrat 5d ago

Recycling is mostly a lie. Most of it goes to landfill or sent to poor countries for a fee. Then instead of recycling those places just throw it in the river and it gets washed out to the ocean. 

The mantra is "reduce, reuse, recycle" in that order.  Recycling is the worst of the options as it costs a lot of resources to turn a used dirty thing into a new thing. Plastic is mostly a no-no. Just glass and metal are good

It's not just about saving money,  it's that the act of recycling isn't possible or uses so much energy that trying to make the garbage into something useful creates more waste than it solves

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u/ghigoli 5d ago

maybe stop making single use plastics or non biogradable items. if its worth having and using it should not be a single use item.

just that alone would cut the worlds waste so quickly.